Charleston County School District
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Charleston School Segregation: Newspaper Articles, 1980
File — Box 140, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Holds the subseries: Charleston County School District, and Constituent Board #20 Trustee. Contains memorandums, correspondence, and reports generated by the school district, with letters sent to and from Whipper during her House of Representarive tenure. Additional CCSD documents are located in Subseries: 2.4.1.16.1.5 (Box 64), and 3.5 (Box 81).
Dates:
1980
Lucille Simmons Whipper papers
Collection
Identifier: AMN 1146
Abstract
Lucille Simmons Whipper (1928-2021), an educator, guidance counselor, academic administrator, community, and religious leader and the first African-American woman to serve as an State of South Carolina House of Representatives in Charleston's District 109 (1986-1996). She exercised her activism with her graduating class at Avery Institute in their attempts to desegregate the College of Charleston in 1944. Decades later, Whipper was instrumental in working with the State of South Carolina and...
Dates:
1900-2016, undated